Print Screen

[Jan Bjorkquist]

How do I use the Prt Scr- Sys Rq key on my HP keyboard?

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I gather you wish to capture the information that is on your screen.

If your using an X based package such as exceed, pressing the print screen on it's own will capture the entire screen. If you using a
terminal emulator such as Esker Tun, the same
key will work. All you need to do is open up
a blank word document and paste the output.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I don't know if this is what you are looking for. There is a utility called xwd that can be used to take a snapshot of any X window into a file. Then you can use xwud to view it or xpr to print it.

$/usr/bin/X11/xwd -out /tmp/xwd.out

The cursor will become a plus sign and you can click on any window to dump. Then use xwud to view it later or xpr to print.

$xwud -in /tmp/xwd.out

$xpr /tmp/xwd.out

Look at the man pages for more options.

-Sri

[Steve Steel]

Hi

I use the script below on an 8500 and it works

You need to change the printer name for the lp and the device in xpr to fit your system.

Click an a window. the window prints

Click on root and screen prints

You can add a comment to this script as parameters


Steve Steel

y=$(date)"_"$(hostname)_$LOGNAME
x=$(echo $y|sed -e 's/ /_/g')
z=$(echo $*|sed -e 's/ /_/g')"!"
/bin/rm /tmp/$PPID$LOGNAME 2>/dev/null
xwd -out /tmp/$PPID$LOGNAME
xpr -device dj1200 -header $x -trailer \"$z\" -landscape /tmp/$PPID$LOGNAME |lp
-dbelgo046 -onb
/bin/rm /tmp/$PPID$LOGNAME 2>/dev/null